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Tornado Warning 27, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2003, 3:41 PM CDT for Bond County, Fayette County, Illinois. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2003, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bond County, IL, Fayette County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| May 8, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 140 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 797 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
374 WFUS53 KLSX 082041 TORLSX ILC005-051-082130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 340 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN BOND COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 340 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR WOBURN. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES AND MAY PRODUCE ADDITIONAL TORNADOES AT ANY TIME * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HAGERSTOWN LOOGOOTEE ST. JAMES VANDALIA IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW MOVE TO A BASEMENT...UNDERGROUND STORM SHELTER...OR AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A STURDY BUILDING. IF YOU LIVE IN A MOBILE HOME OR TRAILER...ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK SHELTER IN A MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. THIS STORM WILL ALSO PRODUCE LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. LAT...LON 3905 8941 3877 8937 3883 8877 3916 8887 $$ TRUETT
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 1:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Calhoun | 3 hr |
| May 8, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Jersey | 50 min |
| May 8, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin, Montgomery | 52 min |
| May 8, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin, Montgomery | 49 min |
| May 8, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Macoupin, Montgomery | 28 min |
| May 8, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette | 64 min |
| May 8, 3:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Bond, Montgomery | 29 min |
| May 8, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 48 min |
| May 8, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Randolph, Saint Clair | 62 min |
| May 8, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Marion | 31 min |
| May 8, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison | 57 min |
| May 8, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 66 min |
| May 8, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette | 31 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.